Hard Disk Speed

Use the tool hdparm to set up better harddisk
performance. Though I have seen laptop disk enabled with
striping, I can't see a reason to do so, because in
my humble opinion also known as RAID0 striping needs at least two
different disks to increase performance. Before using
hdparm check the BIOS settings for harddisk
parameters like DMA or ATA4 or 32bit transfer. The bad thing is that if
something is disabled there - it can not be enabled with
hdparm!